Callao port operators “violate concession contracts”
The chairman of the Peruvian National Port Authority (APN), Frank Boyle, has said that private companies operating in the port of Callao – AMP Terminal at the North Pier and DP World at the South Pier – are not complying in their contracts with the State, The Bulletin reports.
In the first case, the company does not meet with the services specified in the contract, although it was given six months to get the port operating. As a result of the assessment in the first quarter of this year there are lower levels than expected.
As an example, the APM Terminals port has a production rate below 10 container movements per hour and the average is even smaller, reaching from 9.6 or 9.7. It is noted that the average before the granting of the concession was 14 per hour.
Meanwhile, DP World has not yet started building the second phase of the South Pier, which should extend the docking area from 650 meters to 960 meters, and get three additional container cranes operating and nine yard cranes and gantries in order to mobilize the port capacity to 1.3 million TEUs a capacity that the port must have.
On the other hand, Boyle reported that the works in the port of Paita (Piura) will begin in May and will be completed in 2014 with the new container terminal. These works have an investment of $140 million.
In the North Terminal of Callao, demolition will begin in May and the works in August, with an investment of over $300 million. These works will be completed in 2014.